Carol Welsman - Dance with Me

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2020
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:56
Size: 100,3 MB
Art: Front

(2:13)  1. You and the Night and the Music
(4:14)  2. A Taste of Paradise
(3:58)  3. Femme Fatale (Amor Fugaz)
(4:28)  4. Dance with Me (Si Tú No Bailas Conmigo)
(3:42) 5. Time to Dance Cha Cha Cha (Ya Llegó La Hora)
(3:35)  6. Yesterday (Como Fue)
(3:36)  7. Island Lullaby
(3:37)  8. I Think of You (Hoy Como Ayer)
(3:49)  9. I Won't Dance
(5:37) 10. Revelations
(4:03) 11. Yesterday I Heard the Rain (Esta tarde Vi Llover)

Juno-nominated vocalist and pianist Carol Welsman’s forthcoming album Dance With Me is a collection of jazz songs infused with traditional Latin rhythms.It’s the 13th album for the six-time Juno nominee and marks her first venture into Latin jazz. The song selections include popular Latin standards adapted into English, standards from the Great American Songbook, original compositions, and even a song written by Canadian rock icon Randy Bachman.The first single is a duet with Juan Luis Guerra on an English adaptation of the Grammy-winning Dominican superstar’s song Si tú no bailas conmigo. Dance With Me, which arrives this Friday, was co-produced by Welsman and Oscar Hernández, a four-time Grammy-winning composer and arranger.

Welsman is surrounded by the skills of saxophonist and flautist Justo Almario, percussionist Joey de Leon, bassist Rene Camacho and drummer Jimmy Branly.The Cuban-born Branly was instrumental in introducing Welsman to Latin music, particularly the work of Beny Moré. She and co-lyricist Jo Perry chose a number of Latin standards to include on the album and wrote English adaptations such as Y Hoy Como Ayer (I Think of You), Como Fue (Yesterday), and Ya Llegó La Hora (Time to Dance Cha Cha Cha) in the hopes of introducing these songs to a new audience.Among the album’s other cuts are Randy Bachman’s song A Taste of Paradise, which draws on his inspiration from Lenny Breau and Antônio Carlos Jobim, and two of Welsman’s own original compositions: Island Lullaby and Revelations. https://jazz.fm/carol-welsman-dance-with-me-new-album-latin-jazz/

Dance with Me

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Didier Lockwood - Tribute to Stéphane Grappelli

Styles: Violin Jazz
Year: 2000
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:47
Size: 150,3 MB
Art: Front

(3:06)  1. Les valseuses
(3:20)  2. I Got Rhythm
(5:53)  3. Nuages
(4:19)  4. Barbizon Blues
(3:37)  5. All the Things You Are
(3:27)  6. My One and Only Love
(4:07)  7. The Kid
(5:37)  8. Someday My Prince Will Come
(4:15)  9. Minor Swing
(6:13) 10. Misty
(3:33) 11. Pent up House
(4:50) 12. Tears
(5:55) 13. In a Sentimental Mood
(6:30) 14. Beautiful Love

After his excursions into modal jazz, rock, fusion and bop, Didier Lockwood has come home again to revel in the music of jazz violin great Stéphane Grappelli with whom Lockwood performed early in his career. In the process, Lockwood is exposing his astounding talent on a difficult instrument seldom heard in jazz to a broader audience. That audience can't help but sit up and take notice. With the aid of just-as-astounding Biréli Lagrène on guitar (assuming the Django Reinhardt role, of course) and Niels Henning Ørsted Pedersen on bass, this percussionless trio doesn't lack for swing or dynamism. In fact, its swing and dynamism overflow, leaving the listener awash in the thrill that Le Jazz Hot generated over 60 years ago. Lockwood And Company are obviously beyond technique. They have sublimated the style of Grappelli and Reinhardt and effortlessly interpret the legends' approach to their infectious music, slightly gypsy or Gallic in its gushes of emotion and slightly American in its democracy. We can expect excellence in the tributes of "Nuages" and "Les Valseuses". But the unexpected pleasures like Lockwood's overtoned and atmospheric introduction to "Someday My Price Will Come", its timbre pure and almost flute-like, or the Brazilian rhythm expressed by the strings on "The Kid" elevate the CD with more than exceptional musicianship. These pleasures communicate joy and youthful delight and extroversion of spirit. The trio's command of their instruments truly is beyond description. Lockwood's penultimate cadenza and breath-taking final note in the highest register of the instrument on "My One And Only Love" seem to be the tune's reason for existence, the melody itself serving as its lead-in. Lagrène can back up another string musician with irresistible rhythm, but his polyphonal workout on "All The Things You Are" exhibits a free spirit reigned in by the rhythmic needs of the piece. NHØP, ever the solid foundation behind any group, provides nimble soloing, as if the bass were a guitar, before withdrawing into his role as percussive stand-in when the group congeals again as a unit. More than a mere tribute to Stéphane Grappelli, Lockwood's CD represents an infectious demonstration of the potential of the violin as an inspiring jazz instrument. ~ AAJ Staff https://www.allaboutjazz.com/tribute-to-stephane-grappelli-didier-lockwood-dreyfus-records-review-by-aaj-staff.php

Personnel: Violin, Producer – Didier Lockwood; Double Bass – Niels Henning Orsted Pedersen; Guitar – Biréli Lagrène

Tribute to Stéphane Grappelli

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Harry Allen, Dave Blenkhorn - Play the Music of Phil Morrison

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:01
Size: 106,1 MB
Art: Front

(8:00) 1. April and U
(6:31) 2. Summer Rain
(4:24) 3. Down in Rio
(4:37) 4. Mieke Jade
(7:00) 5. Without You
(3:02) 6. Fiddlin’
(7:03) 7. Mystique
(5:20) 8. Your Eyes

Gene Lees writes, “Stan Getz was once asked his idea of the perfect tenor saxophone soloist. His answer was, 'My technique, Al Cohn's ideas, and Zoot's time.' The fulfillment of that ideal may well be embodied in thirty-year-old Harry Allen.”

BMG recording artist Harry Allen has over twenty recordings to his name. Three of Harry's CDs have won Gold Disc Awards from Japan's Swing Journal Magazine, and his CD Tenors Anyone? won both the Gold Disc Award and the New Star Award. His recordings have made the top ten list for favorite new releases in Swing Journal Magazine's reader's poll and Jazz Journal International's critic's poll for 1997, and Eu Nao Quero Dancar (I Won't Dance), the third Gold Disc Award winner, was voted second for album of the year for 1998 by Swing Journal Magazine‚s reader‚s poll.

Harry has performed at jazz festivals and clubs worldwide, frequently touring the United States, Europe, and the Far East. He has performed with Rosemary Clooney, Ray Brown, Hank Jones, Frank Wess, Flip Phillips, Scott Hamilton, Harry 'Sweets' Edison, Kenny Burrell, Herb Ellis, John Pizzarelli, Bucky Pizzarelli, Gus Johnson, Jeff Hamilton, Terry Gibbs, Warren Vache, and has recorded with Tony Bennett, Johnny Mandel, Ray Brown, Tommy Flanagan, James Taylor, Sheryl Crow, Kenny Barron, Dave McKenna, Dori Caymmi, Larry Goldings, George Mraz, Jake Hanna, and Al Foster, among others.

Harry is featured on many of John Pizzarelli's recordings including the soundtrack and an on-screen cameo in the feature film The Out of Towners starring Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn. He has also done a series of commercials for ESPN starring Robert Goulet.

Harry was born in Washington D.C. in 1966, and was raised in Los Angeles, CA and Burrillville, RI. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in music in 1988 from Rutgers University in New Jersey, and currently resides in New York City. https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/harry-allen

Play the Music of Phil Morrison

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